What is the FIRST major news story you remember from your childhood?

Robert Kennedy's assassination in 1968. My grandfather walked out of his room and told the family he heard it on the radio.

The moon landing. 1969.

John F. Kennedy was assassinated during my 4th birthday, all I can remember was there was like a big party in the house where my grandparents, aunts and uncles on both my mother and fathers side were all there and suddenly attention was was like on the big black and white TV and mine was on my new rubber band powered airplane lol. Apollo11 moon landing and the Fall of Saigon were also very memorable for me.

As a small kid I heard constant news on the TV about the Vietnam War. I also remember watching the 1969 Moon landing with my Mom and Sister on our little Black and White TV.

After thinking about it: The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962

Well, thinking hard now my memory goes back to the World Trade Center disaster as the most major news.

The first landing on the moon. I watched it.

I can't think of anything right now

For me it was about the Russian space satellite Sputnik and I remember us as small children making fun of it not understanding anything and then walking up to someone and when they looked at you you said Sputnik really making the spit fly,

I was about 4 years old and remember seeing news stories about the war in Vietnam. I just remember footage of the helicopters ferrying in soldiers to a landing zone coming under intense fire. Other than that, I don't remember any other news stories until a few years later when the talk of the nation was the country's bicentennial celebration.

I remember getting very emotionally involved in the 1960 election of John F. Kennedy vs. Richard Nixon. Most of us young people were rooting for Kennedy and were thrilled when he won. I was 12.

I'm older, so it's the assassination of President Kennedy. I walk home from school, no bus back then and noticed our family store was closed. Family closed store in respect of thy passing of President Kennedy.

The 1986 Challenger Explosion I was about eight and a half

Assassination of our beloved Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her own bodyguards.....i was hardly 12 years then... I remember my parents crying

The assaination of JFK. It was a sad time for this country. I don't remember everything about it..as I had just turned 6, but parts of it.

I remember seeing an atomic bomb blast on TV in 1951. I was 12. After that I was afraid that another war would start and it worried me every time there was a special announcement at school. I thought it would be about another bomb.

The Vajont dam disaster that happened in October 1963 in Italy, followed by JFK assassination. I was already 12 years old, but those are the two that I will never forget.

I really didn't pay attention to the news until I was 12. That was when Bill Clinton was elected. The reason I pay attention to it because we had a mock election in school and I wanted to know who won.

John F. Kennedy's assassination would be mine. Remember they sent us home early from grade school on that day.

911 in 2001 really shocks me, back then I was into this video game Red Alert so I thought it was some kind of joke in the beginning. In that game scenes like attacking the Pentagon and Twin towers actually exist. Then some Arabian journalist throw his shoe at Bush, I can't remember when. Putin fly jet fighter, tough guy. Clinton said to the world he did it. OK ;) Michael Jordan in 1997, amazing. US and UK crashed Iraq, my man, that was fast, before that, Mr Powell in the UN, holding a small vile of what exactly?